FILE - This image provided by the Alexandria (Va.) Sheriff's Office, shows James Gordon Meek in his booking photo on Jan. 31, 2023, in Alexandria, Va. Meek, a former investigative journalist for ABC News pleaded guilty Friday, July 21, 2023 to federal child pornography charges.(Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP)
ABC Journalist Pleads Guilty to Transportation and Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material
A high-profile investigative journalist who worked with ABC News and the New York Daily News has just pleaded guilty to the possession of horrific child sexual abuse materials.
James Gordon Meek, 53, once held a position as a senior counterterrorism adviser and investigator for the US House Committee on Homeland Security.
Meek, an Emmy award-winning journalist, was found to have been in possession of thousands of pieces of child sexual abuse media dating back to 2014, one being a sick video of an infant girl being raped.
Meek also sent abuse materials to other pedophiles, and engaged in graphic conversations fantasizing about the rape of children.
Dropbox, a file hosting service that offers cloud storage, contacted CyberTip in March of 2021 because an account containing Meek’s full name had uploaded five videos that concerned Dropbox staff.
By the end of April of that year, a search warrant was obtained and executed at Meek’s Arlington-area apartment by members of the Washington Field Office Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
Court transcripts reveal that after the search warrant was executed by FBI agents, Meek reportedly declared “my life is over.”
Two iPhones, a hard drive, and a laptop were seized by law enforcement, and digital forensics revealed that the devices cumulatively contained hundreds of photos and videos of extreme child sexual abuse material.
The devices also revealed that Meek posed as a minor and had used several social media apps and online platforms to find minors, extract their usernames for other platforms, engage in sexual conversations, and attempt to solicit nude photos from them…
In one Kik conversation, Meek exchanged photos of his penis with another user identified as a 25-year-old male.
The two men expressed interest in raping a “toddler girl” together while they were engaged in sexual acts with each other.
“Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing,” Meek asked the other man.
Source: Propublica
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